Basic terms you might need to know.
Cloud Services
Consumer and Business products, services and solutions that are delivered and consumed in real-time over the Internet and are available via multiple devices. (e.g. Evernote, Dropbox, Google Apps, MobileMe, etc.)
Cloud Computing
a deployment and delivery model, enabling real-time delivery of products, services and solutions over the Internet (i.e., enabling cloud services)
Comment
A comment is sometimes also called Reply or Response.
Evaluation
Both qualitative and quantitative descriptions of student behavior, plus value judgments concerning the desirability of that behavior. Using collected information (assessments) to make informed decisions about continued instruction, programs, and activities.
Formative Assessment
Observations which allow one to determine the degree to which students know or are able to do a given learning task, and which identifies the part of the task that the student does not know or is unable to do. Outcomes suggest future steps for teaching and learning.
Learning Objective
What you want students to know and understand after they complete a learning experience, usually a culminating activity, product, or performance that can be measured.
Metacognition
The knowledge of one’s own thinking processes and strategies, and the ability to consciously reflect and act on the knowledge of cognition to modify those processes and strategies.
Page
A page is a section of content on a website that does not change very often.
Portfolio
A systematic and organized collection of a student’s work that exhibits to others the direct evidence of a student’s efforts, achievements, and progress over a period of time. The collection may involve the student in the selection of its contents, and should include information about the performance criteria, the rubric or criteria for judging merit, and evidence of student self-reflection or evaluation. It should include representative work, providing a documentation of the students’ performance and a basis for evaluation of the student’s progress. Portfolios may include a variety of demonstrations of learning and have been gathered in the form of a physical collection of materials, videos, CD-ROMs, reflective journals, etc.
Post
A post is a section of content on a website updated regularly and is organized in chronological order.
Rubric
In general a rubric is a scoring guide used in subjective assessments. A rubric implies that a rule defining the criteria of an assessment system is followed in evaluation. A rubric can be an explicit description of performance characteristics corresponding to a point on a rating scale. A scoring rubric makes explicit expected qualities of performance on a rating scale or the definition of a single scoring point on a scale.
Summative Assessment
Evaluation at the conclusion of a unit or units of instruction, or an activity or plan to determine or judge student skills and knowledge. Also an evaluation of the effectiveness of a plan or activity.
